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Apple's New, Old Problem

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Dan Gallagher

Updated Jan. 28, 2014 6:42 p.m. ET

Apple faces a midlife crisis.

Thanks to the phenomenal success of its iPhones, Apple is no longer a lean upstart with unbridled growth potential. Yet given its record of innovation and penchant for disrupting industries, it is also far from being a has-been.

This dual identity has left the company's stock adrift, buffeted by the hopes...

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